China Energy Statistical Yearbook is an annual statistical publication, which covers very comprehensive datain energy construction, production, consumption, equilibrium of supply and demand in an all-round way,established in 1986, edited by Department of Industry and Transport Statistics, National Bureau of Statistics. 2008annual is edited by Department of Energy Statistics, National Bureau of Statistics, published by China StatisticsPress, to the domestic and international public publication. In order to satisfy the masses of readers’ demands for China energy statistics, improve the efficiency andtimeliness of the data use, from each of 2004, China Energy Statistical Yearbook is published one volume everyyear instead of one volume every 2 years. China Energy Statistical Yearbook consists of seven chapters: 1.General Survey; 2. Construction of EnergyIndustry; 3.Energy Production; 4. Energy Consumption; 5. Energy Balance Table of China; 6. Energy BalanceTable by Region; 7. Energy data for the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Region. Additionalinformation provided in the appendices include major energy data for Taiwan province, energy data for relatedcountries or areas arid explanatory notes of main statistical indicators and conversion factors from physical unitsto coal equivalent. Annual statistical reports from the National Bureau of Statistics and the China Statistical Yearbook are themain data sources of this document. However, the national data in this book does not include that of the HongKong and Macao Special Administrative Region, the Taiwan province. The Tibet energy balance data isunavailable yet. The data in the energy balance tables does not cover non-commercial energy. The China energy data were by the year of 2017, energy data for the world and other countries or area wereby the year of 2016. Notations used in the yearbook: blank space indicates that the figure is not large enough to be measured withthe smallest unit in the table, or data are unknown or are not available;”#”indicates a major breakdown of thetotal. Since 2012, Classification for national standard of industry classification is implementing new version of2011.